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US 4,249,843 AGranted
Apparatus for loading, unloading and stacking hay bales
OwnerRobert J. Kerrinventor
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Abstract
Apparatus for loading, unloading and stacking hay bales utilizing a load carrying vehicle with an elevatable and tiltable bed and a powdered headboard or pusher means mounted on the bed capable of traversing the length of the bed; and an independently powdered tine structure generally coextensive with but longer than the bed and extendable to protrude beyond the end of the bed an extent generally equal to the bed length and being supported cantilever fashion by the bed.
Claims8
Apparatus for loading, unloading and stacking hay bales, comprising:
- a. a load carrying vehicle;
- b. a load carrying bed or platform;
- c. bed elevating means mounted on said vehicle and operatively connected to said bed, with said elevating means being capable of tilting said bed about an axis extending transversely of said bed;
- d. headboard or pusher means mounted on said bed and extending transversely of said bed;
- e. carriage means for said headboard permitting traverse of said headboard longitudinally from the front to the rear of said bed;
- f. power means for driving said headboard carriage;
- g. a tine structure having width about the same as that of said bed and length greater than that of said bed;
- h. means mounting said tine structure on said bed and permitting traverse of said tine structure longitudinally of said bed from a retracted position wherein a load carrying portion of said tine structure is about co-extensive with said bed to an extended position wherein said load carrying portion of said tine structure protrudes from the end of said bed sufficiently to extend beneath and support an entire vehicle load;
- i. power means for driving said tine structure.
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